J J McCook Considered for Taft Cabinet Amid Late Night Talks
President elect Taft holds talks on cabinet and consular posts with John J McCook cited as a possible War portfolio candidate. McCook, famed as one of the fighting Cooks, rose from Kenyon College to major and lawyer with ties to Ohio society and Wall Street circles.
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William H. Taft
Mr. Taft
Taft
John J. McCook
McCook
Ohio Society
Henry W. Taft
Col. McCook
McKinley
Stewart L. Woodford
Woodford
Spain
Luke E
W. T
Ashington
John’ J. McCook
Ohn J
Kenyon College
Daniel J. McCook
Murfreesboro
Chickagoing
Grant
Vic
Shady Grove
Allantry
Prs
Table Life Assurance Society
Bmn
Ustable
J. P. Morgan & Co
Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad
Taft and Roosevelt Confer Over Next Admin
President and President-elect William Howard Taft held a late conference in Washington with discussions spanning the present and upcoming administration. Taft offered no details on the talks, while sources noted consultations with various men slated for cabinet positions and a dinner at Secretary Shaw’s home attended by Taft and his wife. Many callers and representatives continued to visit during the evening as Taft prepared for travel to New York and beyond.
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Ngton
William H. H
White House
Taft
As Sry
the Treasury
Sapon
Roosevelt
Taft Townll
Knight
California
Joe Duncann McKinlay
Litics
United General
Mr. Taft
Indian Bureau
York
Boathouses and Stables Burned Along Harlem River
Fire destroyed row of boathouses and stables near Harlem River between 125th and 126th Streets at 10 o clock. Structures owned by boat builder W. and by T. P. Goettlieb housed launches, barges, wagons and barns worth about 35000 dollars. Nearby resident witnessed flames endangering adjacent homes as flames swept through the buildings.
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Harlem
Waie Boat Builder
T. P. Red Goettlieb
Fall Kills Dr. F. R. Baker in Williamsburg
Brooklyn physician Dr. Frank R. Baker, 39, died instantly last evening after falling headfirst from a fourth floor window at his residence at Bedford Avenue and Wilson Street Williamsburg while trying to free a wedged screen. Mrs. Baker witnessed the fall. Dr. Mahr and Ambulance Surgeon Hurley pronounced him dead. The death was ruled accidental after investigation.
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Frank R. Baker
Brooklyn
Bedford Avenue
Wilson Street
Williamsburg
Baker
George Mahr
Hurley
Williamsburg Hospital
George Washington Baker
Psychic Needle claims link to missing wife and child
J H Tourville, heir to a St Louis French family, seeks Chief of Detectives Smith to locate his wife Katherine Tourville and their 20 month old daughter Marie Louise. He says his psychic power via the child allows him to read thoughts and sensed a man visited the home. The couple married in 1905 at Niagara Falls and later separated.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
J. H. Tourville
Smith
Katherin Tourville
Tourville
Marie Louise Tourville
North Garrison Street
Marie Louise
Wilkesbarre
Pittsburg Estate Trades Attract New York Property Interest
Pittsburg expects continued high profile real estate exchanges with New York. The Pittsburg Press notes investors from New York, including three men now visiting to view Pittsburg deals, may swap properties and pay cash differences. The Denny estate plans a deal larger than any seen before, and Prof. Sloan, after trading 100 tenement houses for a New York hotel, aims to include 100 acres of Pittsburg land in a new deal.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
New York
Prof. Sloan
Herbert Dupuy
New York City
Denny
Prof
Sloan
Princeton University
Powder Trust hearing ties gunpowder firms to military pricing
Federal attorneys said the Gunpowder Trade Association led by Du Pont and thirty powder firms set ammunition prices for world armies as late as 1905. A special committee allegedly bound members to refuse sales to governments without all signers’ consent, endangering wars by limiting supply. Almon Lent of Austin Powder testified about a $50,000 fund and a 1897 pact intended to last ten years, with no sign of dissolution.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
Powder Trust
Gunpowder Trade Association
du Pont-De Nemours
Almon Lent
Austin Powder Company
Austin Company
Wife Worth Five Thousand Eight Hundred Yearly
Dr Samuel Millington Miller testified before Justice Dowling about marital strains with his wife Martha Miller who has filed separation papers. He claimed reconciliation attempts failed though he praised his wife and said his earnings dropped from seven thousand to twelve hundred yearly after separation. He denied abuse and cruelty. the court reserved decision.
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Samuel Millington Miller
Martha H. Miller
Supreme Court
Dowling
Maniak terrorizes Edgewater town in gunfight and hold up
Oscar L. Pomeroy a former Philippine soldier drives a stolen rig into Edgewater New Jersey, fires at bystanders and shops, robs the cash register, then flees pursued by a mob before lawmen close in. the dramatic scene unfolds with townspeople recounting the escape and confrontation.
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Edgewater
130Th Street
Jersey
Oscar L. Pomeroy
United States
Philippines
Pomeroy
West 130Th Street
Walsh
John the Baptist
John
Isaac Revese
Isaac
Mrs. Blazzard
Walsh Hotel
Joseph Blumstein
Palisades Supply Company
Enoch Carlson
Fred Hermann
Seth
Seeven
Urrey
Undercliff Avenue
Palisades Park
Burglars Bored Wall at Ackerman & Gordon Fur House
In Manhattan, thieves bored through a 12 inch wall near a burglar proof barrier on the eighth floor of 28 East Twenty-second Street and took mink sable ermine and Persian lamb furs valued by staff at nearly 40 000 dollars though police report only 3800 as stolen. An inside job is suspected by Acting Captain Howard with access after hours.
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Ackerman & Gordon Fur Establishment
East Twenty-second Street
Manhattan
Louis Ackerman
Cortelyou May Be A Banker
Secretary Cortelyou would not confirm a New York report that he was offered the presidency of Union Trust Company. A retirement from the Cabinet at Roosevelt's end is viewed as likely. Union Trust, one of the citys oldest, with over 50 million in deposits, played a relief role during last years panic.
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Washington
Cortelyou
New York
Union Trust Company
Roosevelt
Leslie M. Shaw
Carnegie Trust Company
King
Edward King
House
John Quincy Adams
Perkins
Congress
Caesar
New Silk Stocking Leader Resigns in 29th District
John Henry Hammond, Republican leader of the Twenty-ninth Assembly District, resigns effective January 1. William Chilvers, lawyer with Chilvers & Thompson, is chosen to succeed him. The district, nicknamed the Silk Stocking District, counts elites like Andrew Carnegie Elihu Root Seth Low and Ogden Mills among its residents. Roosevelt launched his political career from this precinct.
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John Henry Hammond
Twenty-ninth Assembly
Joseph H. Choate
Seth Low
Otto T. Barnard
William Jay Schieffelin
I. Townsend Burden
Paul Morton
W. Bayard Cutting
Ogden Mills
President Roosevelt
Poison in Priest's Wine Stuns Youngstown Parish
In Youngstown Ohio on December 11 a plot to murder Rev Father Loos was revealed as strychnine was found in altar wine he drank before communion. A prior window shot narrowly missed him and he remains seriously ill but possibly recovering as investigators pursue disgruntled congregants.
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New York Times
Youngstown
Ohio
Father Loos
Lops
Cars Smash A Station In Erie Freight Runaway
A Erie freight car carrying twenty five tons of sand broke from the Little Falls Paper Co plant in Newburg New York and rolled to Newburg Station. Two passenger cars preparing for the afternoon run were struck and pushed fifty feet. They tore through the station end, creating a twenty five by twenty foot opening in the West Shore room. Five men on the train were involved, with only one escape unhurt.
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New York Times
Newburg
N. Y
Erie
Little Falls Paper Company
West Shore
Mrs Livingston Narrowly Escapes Fire at Rancocas Stock Farm
Mrs Lilian Barnes Allen Livingston of Mount Holly and heir to the Rancocas Stock Farm near Jobstown escaped death after a lamp explosion set her clothing ablaze. Servants aided in by stopping the flames though Mrs Livingston suffered serious burns before medical help arrived.
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New York Times
Mount Holly
N. J
Lilian Barnes-Allen Livingston
Rancocas
Jobstown
Pierre Lorillard
United House Moves to Rebuke President Over Secret Service
The House unanimously adopts a Perkins resolution to create a five member committee to study the President’s remarks on the Secret Service in his annual message. Speaker Cannon names Denby Weeks Williams Lloyd to report before holiday recess as President readies for possible emergency measures.
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New York Times
Washington
House
James B. Perkins
Rochester
N. Y
Secret Service
Cannon
Perkins
Denby
Weeks
John Sharp Williams
James T. Lloyd
Congress
Treasury Department
United States
Houses of Congress
Representative Longworth
Mr. Townsend
Michigan
Townsend
Longworth
Messrs. Perkins
Williams
Lloyd
Democratic Congressional Committee
University Seeks Roosevelt for Minnesota Presidency
Regents of the University of Minnesota discussed offering the presidency to President Roosevelt and plan to send an emissary to Washington to gauge his acceptance. They believe his return from Africa could see him leading the Western institution, with the move framed as a fit response to guiding the university's policies.
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Minnesota Regents
University of Minnesota
Roosevelt
Cyrus Northrop
Washington
Quail Hunt Wound Injurys Miss Bird Near Belvidere
Joseph Ty Bird, VP and GM of Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods in Kansas City, joined Frank Rockefeller on a ranch near Belvidere Kentucky. A spray of small shot from Rockefeller’s gun struck Bird’s face. Birds were wounded. Bird's injuries were treated and not serious. He returned home.
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New York Times
Belvidere
Joseph Ty. Bird
Emery, Bird & Thayer Dry Goods Company
Kansas City
Frank R Rokefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Mr. Bird
Denies Panama Charges In Interview From Paris
M Bunau Varilla told The Times there is no truth in American speculation on the Panama Canal sale. He said a list of stockholders cannot be obtained as Seine records are not public and receivers refuse disclosure. He noted several claim to know the full story for up to 200 dollars.
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New York Times
Paris
M. Bunau-Varilla
Panama Canal
Tribunal of
the Seine
M. le Marquis
Panama Company
Jean Pierre Gautron
Rings Lost at the Waldorf in TimeEes Column Reward Offered
A Waldorf Astoria lost and found note offers a 500 dollar reward for the return of four rings lost December 9. Valued between 4000 and 5000 dollars, the rings include an engagement ring a three-diamond combi nation ring a perfect pearl and a pearls and emeralds piece. The owner a Long Island resident left them in the hotel public washroom at luncheon and efforts to recover them continue.
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TimeEes
Waldorf Astoria
Long Island
Vanderbilt rents Deepdale acreage to Little Neck farmer
William K. Vanderbilt Jr has rented part of Deepdale near Great Neck suitable for agricultural use to Albert Hanlon of Little Neck. Rumors of a sale or move were denied as Vanderbilt plans to stay, while he and Harry Payne Whitney own land near Wading River and a possible new residence was rumored but not confirmed.
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William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Deepdale
Great Neck
S. 1
Albert Hanlon
Little Neck
Vanderbilt
Long Island
Harry Payne Whitney
Wading River
Phipps Rewards Detective for Arrest of Blackmailer
Denver December 11 1923 Lawrence Phipps rewarded Detective John McDonald with 2600 for arresting Mrs Allan F Read who threatened to blow up Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps. A note accompanied the check thanking the detective. Rumors of remarriage between Mr Phipps and his ex wife circulate amid renewed contact for their children and shared concerns after the blackmailer scheme.
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New York Times
Denver
Col
John McDonald
Allan F. Read
Genevieve Chandler Phipps
Lawrence Phipps
Phippses
Read
Phipps
Judge's Tea Outfit Extinguishes Fire at Jersey Court
George Bowley, a clerk, used the judges tea utensils kept in chambers to extinguish a radiator fire under the Supreme Court room floor in Jersey City. No other fire apparatus was at hand. Bowley rushed to the judges room and acted to stop the blaze.
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Hudson County
Jersey City
George Bowley
Supreme Court
Bowley
London meeting backs cheaper Atlantic cable plan
At Mansion House, Lord Milner and Lord Argyll led a drive for a state owned Atlantic cable to cut British and Canadian rates. Lemieux and Sassoon hailed cheaper cabling as vital to empire, urging government action, a deputation to be heard by the post and telegraph authorities.
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NEW York Times
London
Mansion House
Edward Sassoon
NEW York ‘Times
England
American
Duke ‘ Argyll
Lord Strathcona
Lord Milner
Lemieux
Collings
O’connor
Edward Sassoun
Albert Spicer
London Chamber of Commerce
Henniker Heaton
America
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Atlantic
Canada
Duke of Argyll
Pie
Coasi
Jesse Cosslings
Igei Row
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